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Sensations have one, it's been around for a bit now.

Darn it. I saw that question whilst skimming through the other day, but then I lost track of where it was - was thinking Belzebubble too! .. Also ExXeSs. If you want a more spicy one. Beach-ready!

Eh, guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that bit. This I do agree with though. And, I don't really know if I like the idea of LL showcasing any particular communities at all, it's inevitably going to appear like favouritism. .. But I do agree with their choice of showcasing DoSL. I'm totally not biased though!

There's also no shortage of lesbian-catering venues where no men are allowed. I don't really mind, personally, if I'm not wanted somewhere there's other places to go. I also don't really feel like it's an issue that a venue in SL (or RL for that matter) want to make a space for just men or women or trans-people or furries or whatever. It's like nude beaches where no clothes are allowed - if you don't feel comfortable going around naked then just don't go there? Not all venues must try to cater to everyone.

Steinman. He's the guy who wrote the music, hehe.

It can be difficult to determine what age an avatar 'appears' to be. Venue/Region owners choosing to be safe rather than sorry with avatars they can't immediately determine to be adults is completely natural. Even if LL had a very clear policy about what exactly constitutes an underage avatar, it is ultimately a land owner who decides who can or can't go there; they need no 'actual' reason whatsoever. I could ban people from my land for wearing baseball caps in my presence if I wanted to, and I would have no obligation whatsoever to inform the person of my reasons. Could ban them because I didn't like their cologne - even if scents in SL aren't a thing. You might look like the sort to wear a bad-smelling cologne, in my mind, and away you go!

He later worked on Dance of the Vampires (a musical version of Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers), though it didn't do any well to English-speaking audiences it became very popular in German. Due to a shortage on time (he got the gig a month and a half before the Vienna premiere), he recycled some music he had used prior, which both Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler had performed (also some stuff from Dream Engine, Pandora's Box, and Streets of Fire). So he finally got his Vampire musical! He'd also re-use the intro of Totale Finsternis in Seize the Night on Bat out of Hell III. .. Peeve: it hasn't been made into a musical film. I want it. Also I now feel like re-watching The Fearless Vampire Killers. Again!

🎶 There's nothing you can do, a total eclipse of the heart ..!

When you're about to buy a sofa for L$699, but you feel the store seems strangely .. Inconsistent. Upon closer inspection I found the sofa was a full perm prefab, which is L$599. And, the animations in it were so bad I was going to swap them anyway, and they used the default textures - soo. Saved L$100 and supported the original creator instead! .. Although now I'm going to have to muck about with AvSitter and figure out what animations I want in it ..

Not really 'updates', but .. Some stuff I got today/last night. Top & skirt from Rebel Pill on sale. Boots from Utopia@Design. Denim shorts and top from Erratic, shorts on sale. Outfit from Lowen at Level.

Are you sure?

Can't remember what made me feel like waring a toga today. But it led to some playing around, and, poof. Picture. And a little 'behind the scenes' pic of the pose making part, because why not.

Covering Bonnie is a bit of a fool's errand, even if you do a great job, her voice is just unbeatable.

It's much too early for me to think about retirement. I never open my orange letters, I'm not half-way there yet, I don't need to be told that my pension would be awful if I'd retire today.

I grabbed a bunch of demos. Then I went home and swore a lot. A few timed demos that were rejected. A few no-colour demos that were rejected (I'm not risking ending up with a black blob with 0 definition). Some that did come with colour HUDs where the black was literally like looking at dead space on your monitor, rejected. One particularly egregious offender which had such a tight triangle density in one single button that you could read the fricking 'subtitle' of the logotype in wireframe mode, rejected. .. I did find a cute top though!

All right, well, now I have a peeve. Apparently it's a thing that ads don't specify 'LaraX' (or 'MaitreyaX', which peeves me too). Saw an ad on Flickr, in the description it said 'LaraX'. So I'm at the event, find the stall, and here it just says 'Maitreya / Petite'. Strange, I though, but I guess I'll grab the demo? And yeah. There's LaraX in there. And by now I've found like, 4 stalls where it's the same thing. Buuut now I have to go back and run through again to reconsider peeking into the ads I skipped past because it just said 'Maitreya', because there might be LaraX in there? Gah.

Haven't tried it, but .. Two games that are totally immortal: Cooking Simulator (can't wait for the upcoming sequel with multiplayer!), and Viscera Cleanup Detail. Only tried BeYou. I went to the MyStory store, there was a display of something, I was curious about what the animations were like so I sat on it - got automatically permabanned from the system for 'cheating'. Oh well, saved me some money, I suppose!

Or, y'know, instead of first come first serve, a queue when the region is full. Also probably 'you got 30 minutes to browse' in addition. But then who doesn't love it when a shopping event is moving at the speed of pitch because of it being full meanwhile a small army of shopaholics are trying to TP hammer their way through!

Tries to stand in front of the hundreds of BeYou produce elements in the inventory. I have no idea what you are talking about.

Mmm .. Just a few more moments .. Still trying to decide whether or not I actually like the architecture around here ..

In a similar vein .. Someone recently released a lawn mower. Which cuts grass. That grows. And just the other day, someone was giving me a tour of their place, and she had to stop and clean the swimming pool because it had gotten leaves in it. .. SL is starting to get a bit too adult, it seems.

Not a limited supply of people. It's the bad onboarding experience's fault! Or the wages? Or what was it again. There's much too many obvious reasons the sky is falling down around here.

I fail to see how capitalism is somehow the 'issue' here (in fact, I've yet to see any actual issue at all). How much you can earn by doing things in SL is very much a question of supply and demand. Supply is entirely on your end; what are you trying to capitalise on? How is the competition? For demand, well, SL has a finite userbase (unless you do stuff so good it brings people in just to buy them, I guess?), and any given creation in SL will only appeal to so-or-such big a portion of that userbase (and then there's the whole 'getting seen' bit, but that's another question). For hosts and DJs it's just tough luck, everyone and their dog has had the idea to make some pocket money by torturing themselves for 2 hours every few days and hoping to get some tips out of it, it's usually the first 'professions' most people will try (particularly hosting, as it has absolutely zero prerequisites other than 'can u english?' at most venues, and maybe being 30+ days old). There's so much supply of doe-eyed 'I can make moneys?'-types, so many venues, and a lot of them thinking 'oh we'll become the new top place if only we can cram our schedule full to cater to people 24/7'. Trying to make it so everyone who chucks themselves into that ring earn a 'decent wage' for their time is just not feasible, nor do I think it's even something we should aspire to; SL DJs and hosts shouldn't be compared to service profession staff in the real world - if anything, maybe, they could be compared to the types who'll strum a guitar in a subway station or shopping mall. Live performers, same thing, really - but they're not 'entitled' to it just because they put time or effort into it. Especially not the 'local open mic club rejects'. Charge an entry fee and pay your staff if you want some fair distribution of income (of course it's quite likely it'll just kill your venue and send your patrons packing to a different one - unless your place is niche enough to still be interesting to a limited clientele; and, what, should LL monitor these venues' incomes and ensure the staff is being paid 'decently'? I've worked at such places, the distribution of wealth isn't exactly 'fair' - but my service wasn't indentured or anything, and it didn't take me that long to figure out it wasn't worth my time and that I wasn't enjoying it enough to consider it a 'fun pastime', and so I quit - not very complicated stuff, this). For creators, it becomes a question of supplying something unique (which often means it'll be niche, which reduces the potential customer base, because whilst most virtual barbies want to stand out, they don't want to actually stand out to stand out - but hey, at least you can raise the unit price a little bit without too many complaints?), or you can try to cater to everyone, and compete with thirty-eleven other stores creating the exact same 'generic jeans no 34 with the current trend-flavour of being unbuttoned', at which point people will ask 'which one did it best' or 'which one did it cheapest' - because no one needs thirty-eleven pairs of no.34 generic unbuttoned jeans. Glares at some of our resident shopping addicts. Right? Right. If income is your primary concern, then probably try to find a balancing point between the two. But also, if income is your primary concern, maybe don't look to SL for it. No one in SL is being exploited, everyone are here voluntarily. It's not like someone has monopolised some natural resources (well, maybe some land barons inflating prices of coastal/roadside land and holding it 'hostage' - but trying to fix that by changing the value of the L$ is a bit like going in with a bucket of paint and a paintbrush into a burning house; and LL doesn't 'really' have any incentive to fix it, because whoever owns the land pays tier anyway). There's of course very little regulation within SL's markets, so there absolutely are cartel-like structures and a whole lot of nepotism (which certainly isn't a concept unique to capitalism, though). Who gets to be in my super-cool event? Who gets a dev kit for my body? And I don't really see how LL would regulate that sort of thing without getting involved in some very deep resident-to-resident drama. I mean, sure, they've legally covered their backs so that they could just go in and say 'your creation is now ours and we control and distribute it as we please', but 28 days later there'd be 13 people left on the grid wondering where everyone went. Either which way, changing the value of the platform's currency wouldn't solve anything. But it would cause a whole lot of trouble for everyone, then it would mean people would just adjust their prices to the new levels, unless they left the platform completely because of the bother of it all.